Hersheypark is a famous amusement park in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The park looked to GeoPrac sponsor Nicholson Construction for micropile foundations for their new $12.5M Storm Runner roller coaster. The ground conditions consisted of highly variable karstic limestone. Read the project profile on Nicholson’s website to see how they handled the design and construction of these micropile foundations. [Source: Nicholson Construction Company. Image: Nicholson Construction]
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Geotechnical contractor Nicholson Construction has brought out a hilarious marketing slogan for the NAT 2018 tunneling conference happening this week in Washington D.C. If you are at the conference, go visit them in Booth 505 and maybe […]
PITTSBURGH, PA – February 5, 2013 – Nicholson Construction was recently awarded the geotechnical work for the new Children’s Pavilion at Children’s Hospital of Richmond at the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) by Skanska Building, USA.
The $168 million, 640,000 square-foot facility will house 72 exam rooms, a surgical area with two operating rooms, and two procedure rooms, areas for diagnostic testing, imaging and laboratory services. Construction also includes an attached parking garage with more than 600 spaces.
The new Children’s Pavilion will make Children’s Hospital of Richmond the largest and most advanced outpatient facility dedicated to children in the region.
[Editor] Read the rest of the press release from GeoPrac.net sponsor Nicholson Construction. [/Editor]
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It’s among great pieces of micropiles but people just don’t knwo the kind of work it takes yet. Maybe one day they will.